Cowbane.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Tetanic condition of the muscles in cerebro-spinal meningitis. Tonic spasms of the muscles of the face and neck. Spasmodic hiccup.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Great anxiety at the praecordia. Unconsciousness, eyes turned upward, trismus, spasmodic vomiting, head thrown backward, opisthotonos, tetanic state of all the muscles.1.
DOSE.
Drop doses of the first or second decimal dilution.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis: the muscles are in a state of tetanic rigidity.1.
Local tonic spasm of the muscles of the neck and jaw, usually hysterical in character.1.
Hiccup and belching of a spasmodic character.1.